Directives for composing aspect-oriented design class models

Y. R. Reddy
S. Ghosh
R. B. France
G. Straw

2005 Transactions of Aspect-Oriented Software Development preprint.

Abstract

An aspect-oriented design model consists of a set of aspect models and a primary model. Each aspect model describes a feature that crosscuts elements in the primary model. Aspect and primary models are composed to obtain an integrated design view. In this paper we describe a composition approach that utilizes a composition algorithm and composition directives. Composition directives are used when the default composition algorithm is known or expected to yield incorrect models. Our prototype tool supports default class diagram composition.